Re: Bug#276299: netcfg insists on confirming hostname and domainname

2004-10-19 Thread Paul Millar
On Monday 18 October 2004 18:12, Joey Hess wrote: > Paul Millar wrote: > > On Saturday 16 October 2004 00:44, Geert Stappers wrote: > > > netcfg/get_hostname=x netcfg/get_domain=x > > > > This is, unfortunately, not a satisfactory solution as it makes the grub > > config file machine-specific. >

Bug#276299: netcfg insists on confirming hostname and domainname

2004-10-18 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 18 October 2004 19:12, Joey Hess wrote: > > No it does not. Netcfg replaces the dummy values here with whatever it > > gets from dhcp/dns. (This is a bug if you _want_ to have > > machine-specific preseeding of these values, since it's impossible.) > > Even if you also

Bug#276299: netcfg insists on confirming hostname and domainname

2004-10-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 18 October 2004 19:12, Joey Hess wrote: > No it does not. Netcfg replaces the dummy values here with whatever it > gets from dhcp/dns. (This is a bug if you _want_ to have > machine-specific preseeding of these values, since it's impossible.) Even if you also specify 'netcfg/disable_dhcp

Bug#276299: netcfg insists on confirming hostname and domainname

2004-10-18 Thread Joey Hess
Geert Stappers wrote: > After discovering limits that are documented in #276726 and #276840 > I got an almost automatic install with d-i, the only manual action > were entering root password[1] and quiting aptitude[2] Could you tell the final setup you used? Last I heard you had one variable too m

Re: Bug#276299: netcfg insists on confirming hostname and domainname

2004-10-18 Thread Joey Hess
Paul Millar wrote: > On Saturday 16 October 2004 00:44, Geert Stappers wrote: > > append > > > > netcfg/get_hostname=x netcfg/get_domain=x > > This is, unfortunately, not a satisfactory solution as it makes the grub > config file machine-specific. No it does not. Netcfg replaces the dummy valu

Re: Bug#276299: netcfg insists on confirming hostname and domainname

2004-10-18 Thread Christian Perrier
> I got an almost automatic install with d-i, the only manual action > were entering root password[1] and quiting aptitude[2] > > > Paul. > > Geert Stappers > > [1] AFAIK is that work in progress. Should work if you install unstable rather than testing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Bug#276299: netcfg insists on confirming hostname and domainname

2004-10-18 Thread Geert Stappers
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 12:59:05PM +0100, Paul Millar wrote: > On Saturday 16 October 2004 00:44, Geert Stappers wrote: > > append > > > > netcfg/get_hostname=x netcfg/get_domain=x > > This is, unfortunately, not a satisfactory solution as it makes the grub > config file machine-specific. It o

Re: Bug#276299: netcfg insists on confirming hostname and domainname

2004-10-18 Thread Paul Millar
On Saturday 16 October 2004 00:44, Geert Stappers wrote: > append > > netcfg/get_hostname=x netcfg/get_domain=x This is, unfortunately, not a satisfactory solution as it makes the grub config file machine-specific. An alternative is to set the debconf priority to critical, but this isn't a go

Bug#276299: netcfg insists on confirming hostname and domainname

2004-10-15 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 04:52:24PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Rick_Thomas wrote: > > The scenario that has a problem is where you are using preseeding for > > everything *but* hostname and domainname. You are getting host and > > domain name from DHCP. > > > > There should be some way to tell pres

Bug#276299: netcfg insists on confirming hostname and domainname

2004-10-15 Thread Joey Hess
Rick_Thomas wrote: > The scenario that has a problem is where you are using preseeding for > everything *but* hostname and domainname. You are getting host and > domain name from DHCP. > > There should be some way to tell preseeding that you want it to trust > DHCP and use it for getting what can

Bug#276299: netcfg insists on confirming hostname and domainname

2004-10-15 Thread Rick_Thomas
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 17:06, Joey Hess wrote: > Geert Stappers wrote: > > The sane defaults come from domain name servers in the network. > > > > > Please make it possible to surpress these questions. > > > > For those who use "preseed/url=http://goldserver/seeds/ahost.txt"; > > > > ( "preseed/

Bug#276299: netcfg insists on confirming hostname and domainname

2004-10-14 Thread Joey Hess
Geert Stappers wrote: > I have _not_ stopped it yet, with this > --- bd.text 2004/10/12 21:18:57 1.9 > +++ bd.text 2004/10/14 15:42:40 > @@ -65,8 +65,10 @@ > # Note that any hostname and domain names assigned from dhcp take > # precidence over values set here. However, setting the va

Bug#276299: netcfg insists on confirming hostname and domainname

2004-10-14 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 05:06:23PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Geert Stappers wrote: > > The sane defaults come from domain name servers in the network. > > > > > Please make it possible to surpress these questions. > > > > For those who use "preseed/url=http://goldserver/seeds/ahost.txt"; > > > >

Bug#276299: netcfg insists on confirming hostname and domainname

2004-10-13 Thread Joey Hess
Geert Stappers wrote: > The sane defaults come from domain name servers in the network. > > > Please make it possible to surpress these questions. > > For those who use "preseed/url=http://goldserver/seeds/ahost.txt"; > > ( "preseed/file=/hd-media/ahost.txt" users can avoid the confirm ) You c

Bug#276299: netcfg insists on confirming hostname and domainname

2004-10-13 Thread Joey Hess
Geert Stappers wrote: > This bugreport is for me and probably other "auto installers" release > critical, some will say it has wishlist severity, so it became 'normal'. > > netcfg insists on confirming the hostname and domain name, > that blocks doing automated installations, as one still has to p

Bug#276299: netcfg insists on confirming hostname and domainname

2004-10-13 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:45:34AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > Package: netcfg > Severity: normal > Tags: d-i sarge > > Hello, > > This bugreport is for me and probably other "auto installers" release > critical, some will say it has wishlist severity, so it became 'normal'. > > netcfg insist

Bug#276299: netcfg insists on confirming hostname and domainname

2004-10-13 Thread Geert Stappers
Package: netcfg Severity: normal Tags: d-i sarge Hello, This bugreport is for me and probably other "auto installers" release critical, some will say it has wishlist severity, so it became 'normal'. netcfg insists on confirming the hostname and domain name, that blocks doing automated installati